Nationality Canadian | Name Ed Perkins | |
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Born August 31, 1953 ( 1953-08-31 ) Thesis A Nonstandard Approach to Brownian Local Time Alma mater University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Books On the Martingale Problem for Interactive Measure-valued Branching Diffusions, Historical Processes Awards CRM-Fields-PIMS prize, Rollo Davidson Prize, Fellow of the Royal Society | ||
Doctoral advisor Frank Bardsley Knight | ||
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Edwin Arend Perkins, (born 31 August 1953) is a Canadian mathematician who has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia since 1989 and Canada Research Chair in Probability since 2001. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1988 and to the Royal Society in 2007. He won the 2003 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize.
He obtained his PhD in 1979 under the supervision of Frank Bardsley Knight at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a dissertation titled 'A Nonstandard Approach to Brownian Local Time'.
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